The #metoo movement globally has been about women speaking out, exposing perpetrators and sharing their stories. Locally, recent high-profile sexual harassment cases have been about women who did not want to share their stories but had them shared against their will. Silence and disclosure. Privacy and public interest. Does silence help or hinder sexual harassment?

Over my 20-year career as a corporate equal opportunity lawyer, I advised on hundreds of employment disputes that ended in mutually agreed settlements, in which parties agreed to keep their terms of settlement confidential and in sexual harassment claims to never speak of it, "except as required by law".